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Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Utopia, Evelyn Glennie

Suzy Klein presents potential companion pieces for a popular piece of music, and virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie reveals her cultural inspirations and influences.

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Each day this the virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie reveals the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Peggy Glanville-Hicks

    Promenade (Etruscan Concerto)

    Performer: Caroline Almonte. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Mills.
    • ABC.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Te Deum in C major, H XXIIIc 2

    Choir: Namur Chamber Choir. Ensemble: La Petite Bande. Director: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • J. Haydn: Harmoniemesse; Te Deum.
    • DHM.
    • 12.
  • Aaron Copland

    Saturday Night Waltz (Rodeo - 4 dance episodes)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Aaron Copland.
    • Chandos.
    • 020.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Premi猫re Suite in E minor - Chaconne ou Passacaille

    Performer: Christophe Rousset. Performer: Marion Martineau. Performer: Atsushi Saka茂.
    • Couperin: Pi猫ces de viole.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 7.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In the Bottoms: Morning-Barcarolle

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • Direct to Tape.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Rite Of Spring Part 1

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Debussy - Rachmaninov - Stravinsky.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 4.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Filiae mestae - motet in C minor RV.638 - 'Sileant Zephyri'

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: Ensemble Artaserse.
    • Erato.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Scherzo no.2 in B flat minor Op.31

    Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • Chopin: Nocturnes/Scherzos/Sonata in B flat minor: Lortie.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Vittorio Monti

    Czardas

    Orchestrator: Christopher Palmer. Music Arranger: Evelyn Glennie. Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • RCA.
  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Francisco Guerrero

    Surge propera amica mea

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Bernard Herrmann

    Psycho (Prelude)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Herrmann.
    • Herrmann: Music for Psycho: National Philharmonic Orchestra, Herrmann.
    • Unicorn-Kanchana.
    • 1.
  • Silvestre Revueltas

    La noche de encantamiento (La noche de los mayas)

    Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring: Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 18.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Orientale (5 Novelettes Op.15)

    Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Berlioz: La Damnation De Faust: LSO, Davis.
    • LSO Live.
    • 3.
  • Michael Daugherty

    Reflections on the Mississippi: IV. Steamboat

    Orchestra: Albany Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Alan Miller.
    • Daugherty: Dreamachine, Trail of Tears & Reflections on the Mississippi.
    • Naxos.
    • 11.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano trio no. 1 in B major Op.8 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Jeremy Denk. Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • For the Love of Brahms.
    • SONY.
    • 7.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laudate Dominum Secondo (Selva morale e spirituale)

    Choir: Cantus C枚lln. Ensemble: Concerto Palatino. Conductor: Konrad Jungh盲nel.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's Suite: Jig

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations: No.25 (1955 recording)

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • CBS.
  • Luciano Berio

    Folk Songs (Azerbaijan Love Song)

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Performer: Bridget Kibbey. Performer: Todd Palmer. Performer: Eric Poland. Performer: Gordon Gottlieb. Performer: Ljova. Performer: Erik Friedlander. Performer: Tara Helen O'Connor.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 22.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Pohjola's daughter - symphonic fantasia Op.49

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Halle.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in E flat major, K 375 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Holliger Wind Ensemble.
    • Mozart: Serenades: Academy of St Martin in the fields/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 11.

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